An Eagle sat on a lofty rock, watching the movements of a Hare whom he sought to make his prey. An archer, who saw the Eagle from a place of concealment, took an accurate aim and wounded him mortally. The Eagle gave one look at the arrow that had entered his heart and saw in that single glance that its feathers had been furnished by himself. “It is a double grief to me,” he exclaimed, “that I should perish by an arrow feathered from my own wings.”
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Aesop was an ancient Greek storyteller, believed to have lived around 620–564 BCE, whose fables have endured for over two millennia through countless retellings and translations. "The Eagle and the Arrow" is one of his most economical works — delivering a stinging moral in just a handful of sentences. Aesop is widely regarded as the father of the Western fable tradition.
